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Soil Sci Module 7

The document provides instructions for an activity where students will observe crop plants in their locality for nutrient deficiency symptoms, take photos, watch an educational video on nutrient deficiencies, and evaluate what deficiency they observed. It then discusses causes and impacts of nutrient deficiencies, defines primary macronutrients, differentiates soil fertility and productivity, and describes methods for assessing and improving soil fertility. Finally, it provides a scenario where a student makes fertilizer recommendations for a banana farm client based on observed deficiency symptoms and a soil analysis.

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Soil Sci Module 7

The document provides instructions for an activity where students will observe crop plants in their locality for nutrient deficiency symptoms, take photos, watch an educational video on nutrient deficiencies, and evaluate what deficiency they observed. It then discusses causes and impacts of nutrient deficiencies, defines primary macronutrients, differentiates soil fertility and productivity, and describes methods for assessing and improving soil fertility. Finally, it provides a scenario where a student makes fertilizer recommendations for a banana farm client based on observed deficiency symptoms and a soil analysis.

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Module 7

Lesson 2
ACTIVITY
 In this activity, you will select crops of your preference in your locality and evaluate
whether it shows deficiency symptoms.
PROCEDURE:
1. In your locality, observe the color and status of the leaves in the crops.
2. Record your observation by taking photos.
3. Visit www.youtube.com and search the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9SotrCwqfHo entitled “A beginners guide: Nutrient Deficiency”, and watch it.
4. Upon finishing watching the video and observing the crops in your locality,
evaluate what deficiency did you observed and put it in a leaflet formatted output.

Analysis
 Explain why the plants show deficiency symptoms?
- If soil levels of one or more vital nutrients are lower than a plant's demands,
or if soil conditions prevent one or more plant nutrients from being in a form
that plant roots can absorb, plants may exhibit nutrient deficiency symptoms.

 Discuss what will happen to the plants if the deficiency of its nutrients will not be
corrected.
- Plants will grow stunted and spindly, with poor secondary shoot development.
Starting from the bottom to the upper leaves, the entire leaf will turn yellow if
the deficiency of the nutrients of the plants will not be corrected.

 Explain if deficiency symptoms are helpful in crop production.


- - No. Deficiency symptoms are ineffective in crop production because they
limit plant growth and cause the plants to turn yellow, indicating that they are
unwell. It has the potential to have a significant impact on agriculture as well.

Application
Understand Soil Nutrient Management
1. Discuss why is nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium an important elements?
- - Nitrogen is usually the element that restricts plant growth and is consumed
in the greatest quantities by plants. It governs the usage of potassium (K),
phosphorus (P), and other elements. Every living cell, whether plant and
animal, contains the element P. The light energy captured by photosynthesis
would not support any of the necessary plant processes if the molecules
containing P were absent. K is found in the soil solution. The rate of K
exchange from clay and organic matter surfaces, as well as the rate of
release from soil minerals, control K dynamics.

2. Explain why N, P, and K are considered primary macronutrients.


- - They are classified as primary nutrients since they are essential for plant
growth. In energy metabolism and photosynthesis, nitrogen plays a critical
function. Root development is aided by phosphorus. Potassium is involved in
water regulation and the transport of reserve chemicals in plants.

3. Differentiate soil fertility from soil productivity.


- - Soil fertility refers to the amount and availability of components necessary
for plant growth in the soil, whereas soil productivity refers to a soil's ability to
produce plants under a specific management scheme.

4. Discuss what are the methods of assessing soil fertility. Under what condition/s
would a particular method be appropriate?
- The most basic approach for determining soil fertility is to dissolve a soil
sample in water and chemically extract the N, P, and K as nitrate, phosphate,
and potassium. The amount of N, P, and K in the sample can be measured by
comparing the solution with a color chart.

5. Explain what are the different methods of improving soil fertility


- Fertilizer application can improve soil fertility by adding any organic or
inorganic substance of natural or synthetic origin to the soil to give particular
nutrients required for plant growth. The next step is to apply lime to help
improve the pH of acidic soil. Finally, effective soil and crop management
procedures are essential (crop rotation, cover cropping, contour farming, strip
cropping, organic matter amendment, and green manuring)

Think like an Agriculturist!


You learned in this module the techniques in diagnosing the fertility status of a certain
area. Mr. Sue Wel has a 10-hectare banana farm. He approached you as a soil fertility
expert to survey the soil status of his farm. Upon walking around the farm, you observed
the older leaves have purple coloration on most of the plants, particularly on the
undersides. In this situation, you already have an idea that there is something lacking with
nutrition. To make conclusive with your initial findings, you suggested to Mr. Sue Wel that
it is much better to have a soil analysis to have a more accurate quantitative
recommendation. After analyzing the soil, you recommended a 180- 70-300 N-P-K that
should be applied in his area per hectare for the whole year. It is understood that this rate
was the deficit amount of N-P-K for the requirement of bananas.
Available fertilizer:

Diammonium phosphate (18-46-0)


Urea (46-0-0)
Muriate of Potash (0-0-60)
With these available fertilizers, how many kg in each of them should Mr. Sue Wel
prepared to satisfy the Recommended rate? Show your step-by-step solution.

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